The first article in this series of musings, In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I), brought a lot of comment, particularly on blogs that reprinted it. Most commenters disagreed with me, and several of the commenters compared an author’s uniqueness and a book’s worth to a painting.
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In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I)
April 25th, 2011 · 8 Comments · opinion
Some questions have no answer, or at least not a universal answer. This is true of this question: In the era of ebooks, what is a book worth? Yet, every day, ebookers are making that value judgement, including in their calculation of whether or not to buy an ebook what they believe is the worth of a [...]
My Book Problem
April 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
by Warren Adler In another few weeks, I will be moving to another apartment in the same building in Manhattan where I have spent the past few years. While moving in itself is a traumatic event as everyone knows, my principal problem is books. I have a huge collection of books. In the three or [...]
Augen’s The Book is on sale TODAY Only – $65
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
The site 1SaleAday have Augen’s first e-reader on sale today. You have under 8 hours left to get it, so you might want to act fast. But I wouldn’t get it if I were you. AUGEN introduced this e-reader last summer, and at the time it was a decent e-reader. But it’s not so great [...]
Tell Publishers Why You Didn’t Buy A Book
March 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
Lost Book Sales: Every day an author and a publisher lose a sale. These are the stories why. I mentioned this site before. Things have since changed for the worse for readers. Random House has adopted the price-fixing anti-competitive Agency Model. For example, overnight The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo went from about US$5.00 to [...]
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See an Espresso Book Machine in Action
February 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
NPR’s Science Friday posted this video yesterday. You’re looking at an Espresso Book Machine that is owned by the NYC based bookseller McNally Jackson. It took me a while to get the embed code working, and it might not make it through the RSS feed. If you don’t see the video below, go visit the [...]
Do you miss that old book smell?
February 5th, 2011 · 2 Comments · humor
About 2 years ago a company called Prism Durosport released a line of book scents. The Smell of Books came in 5 scents: New Book Smell, Scent of Sensibility, Classic Musty, Eau You Have Cats, and Crunchy Bacon Scent. Unfortunately, these scents were discontinued almost immediately. There was a minor snafu at the factory; some [...]
Canada’s largest book distributor now bankrupt
February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
H.B. Fenn filed for bankruptcy today. Normally I wouldn’t comment on a book distributor (they don’t seem to handle ebooks), but they released a statement today which said they had: encountered significant financial challenges due to the loss of distribution lines, shrinking margins and the significant shift to e-books, all of which have significantly reduced [...]
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Ion Audio Book Saver – a novel book scanner
January 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
This is one of those things that I wish I hadn’t missed at CES. The Book Saver is a new scanning rig from Ion Audio. It has a novel design and a couple of rather interesting features. You’ll need to watch the demo video to really grasp how this thing works. I’d seen some articles [...]
Diamond Book Distributors stop shipments to Borders
January 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
Diamond Book Distributors sent out an email this week to their clients and partners. Bill Schanes, Diamond’s VP of purchasing, said that Borders had suspended payments to Diamond, and the distributor was forced to suspend book shipments to the retail chain. Given that Diamond is only the latest to stop doing business with Borders, I’d [...]
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